Places mergrau Wants to Go

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.

An unusual building on a "desolate hill" features the works of an Icelandic sculptor.

Though they may seem like simple stones, these rocks represent a ghostly legend.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

A popular Icelandic children's story comes to life inside this cave.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Erected in memory of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born close to this spot, this statue commemorates the author and his famous detective.

A mysterious ruin shrouded in more folklore than fact.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

A life-size bronze statue of Ettore Boiardi, the man behind the can.

Haunted dolls, macabre artifacts, and more make up the collection of the “most haunted museum in the world.”

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.